groundloop Posted September 29, 2022 #1 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I'm on Miracle right now and was noticing that they're giving out medallions to contest winners instead of the coveted Ship On A Stick. What's up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondello Posted September 29, 2022 #2 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Another dreaded Carnival cutback? Can you hang the medallion on a lanyard? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icft Posted September 29, 2022 #3 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I think I saw ship-on-a-stick on the new room service menu... 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare vadersprincess12 Posted September 29, 2022 #4 Share Posted September 29, 2022 We got one on the Legend in August but they were also giving out medallions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakyBeef Posted September 29, 2022 #5 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Supply chain issues? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallFour4 Posted September 29, 2022 #6 Share Posted September 29, 2022 We were told on the Breeze earlier this month they are replacing the ship specific ones with a generic label of Carnival. Looks like they have depleted their supply. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0urn3yman Posted September 29, 2022 #7 Share Posted September 29, 2022 On our recent Horizon cruise, the CD mentioned the company providing those items no longer makes them - result from the pandemic. carnival is looking for a new supplier 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwcruiselover Posted September 29, 2022 #8 Share Posted September 29, 2022 On the Pride TA they told us the supplier went out of business during the pandemic and they don’t have a new supplier. Same on the Splendor over the summer. They had a very few SOAS’s that the cruise director gave out for a few of the activities he hosted. For trivia, etc., they gave out “bling on a string.” I hope they find a new supplier soon! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjschwammy Posted September 29, 2022 #9 Share Posted September 29, 2022 They were giving away Ships on Sticks this past week on the Sunshine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudyard Posted September 29, 2022 #10 Share Posted September 29, 2022 People with faster internet connections won them all at trivia 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Fart Cruisers Posted September 30, 2022 #11 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Maybe, to save some money instead of giving out Ships on Sticks they will just give out Sticks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiderguy8 Posted September 30, 2022 #12 Share Posted September 30, 2022 On the Sunshine two weeks ago the fun squad members told us that they are giving medallions to winners of trivia and giving ships on sticks to the winners of the games where you pair up with others and form teams. Which, of course, then leads to that awkward discussion over who, out of 8 or so people on the winning team, gets to keep the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz-s Posted September 30, 2022 #13 Share Posted September 30, 2022 36 minutes ago, Raiderguy8 said: On the Sunshine two weeks ago the fun squad members told us that they are giving medallions to winners of trivia and giving ships on sticks to the winners of the games where you pair up with others and form teams. Which, of course, then leads to that awkward discussion over who, out of 8 or so people on the winning team, gets to keep the ship. The obvious answer is a gladiator-style fight on Lido to determine the worthy owner. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwcruiselover Posted September 30, 2022 #14 Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Rudyard said: People with faster internet connections won them all at trivia I sure wish the Fun Squad could do something to prevent that. It’s not fair to the people honestly trying their best to answer the questions. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof3cruisers Posted September 30, 2022 #15 Share Posted September 30, 2022 3 hours ago, mz-s said: The obvious answer is a gladiator-style fight on Lido to determine the worthy owner. On Paradise in March, we had to do a “sing-off” to determine the winner. Sadly, I froze at the last moment (down from 7 to 3 of us) when the guy before me sang Jingle Bells and that’s what I had in my head. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bguppies Posted September 30, 2022 #16 Share Posted September 30, 2022 9 hours ago, mjschwammy said: They were giving away Ships on Sticks this past week on the Sunshine. DW won a trivia less than 7 days ago on the Sunshine and the guy had her write down her cabin number on the scoresheet and took it. So we assumed he just forgot to bring a Ship on a Stick when he came up for trivia. We stayed for 3 more trivias and no one else got one either with other hosts.(Or medallions) None of the trivias were much fun or conducted well so for the first time in any of our cruises we quit going. As of Sunday we hadn't received anything yet, so DW went down to Guest Services and they called down to somebody on the Fun Team and said something would be sent to our cabin. Woke up on Debarkation Day to find somebody had let themselves into our cabin while we slept and left 3 chocolate covered strawberries (which we should have gotten anyway as Platinum, but don't like anyway)and a note saying thanks for playing trivia. Thankfully she had already won a Ship on a Stick for her collection on a Sunshine cruise in March. (She had one for every cruise she has been on up until this cruise, but at least she still has one for every ship she has been on now) Seemed more like the Fun Team have been told to only give them out for larger (theater sized trivias, etc.) and to not give out decent prizes at the smaller trivias. I'm sure saving a $1 ship on a stick versus giving $0.50 medallions versus giving leftover chocolate covered starwberries getting ready to be trashed is the latest cost savings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ontheweb Posted September 30, 2022 #17 Share Posted September 30, 2022 12 hours ago, J0urn3yman said: On our recent Horizon cruise, the CD mentioned the company providing those items no longer makes them - result from the pandemic. carnival is looking for a new supplier I hope they find one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpayroll Posted September 30, 2022 #18 Share Posted September 30, 2022 John Heald gave them all away to people asking him to make their cruise SPECIAL.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz-s Posted September 30, 2022 #19 Share Posted September 30, 2022 1 minute ago, mrpayroll said: John Heald gave them all away to people asking him to make their cruise SPECIAL.... I think we've discovered the key to Carnival's profitability. Stop letting John make people's cruises SPECIAL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BlerkOne Posted September 30, 2022 #20 Share Posted September 30, 2022 28 minutes ago, mz-s said: I think we've discovered the key to Carnival's profitability. Stop letting John make people's cruises SPECIAL! Thanks for the reminder. I need to ask John to make my upcoming cruise special. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joebucks Posted September 30, 2022 #21 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Like many other things, people didn't care for them when they were here. Now that they're gone, THEY MADE THE VACATION FOR ME. I'M GOING TO ROYAL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ontheweb Posted September 30, 2022 #22 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Ugh! Pretty soon the only way to get a ship on a stick will be on E-Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiderguy8 Posted September 30, 2022 #23 Share Posted September 30, 2022 We also like to win one on every ship on which we sail. We were on one of the last cruises that the Fantasy ever did (February 2020) prior to going to the scrap yard and they were giving away medallions to the winners of any game. We were told that they had run out of the ships on stick so, when we got home, we bought a Fantasy ship on stick off of ebay. I always wondered if they had reordered ships on sticks for the Fantasy and somewhere, in some warehouse, there are thousands of them that never got to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted September 30, 2022 #24 Share Posted September 30, 2022 42 minutes ago, Joebucks said: Like many other things, people didn't care for them when they were here. Now that they're gone, THEY MADE THE VACATION FOR ME. I'M GOING TO ROYAL! On Royal you get a pen. WOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDisconnections Posted September 30, 2022 #25 Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 hours ago, mrpayroll said: John Heald gave them all away to people asking him to make their cruise SPECIAL.... Accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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